Who knows what weapons they are carrying? It is hard to displace a thought I have rooted in the images we all carry from the recent Walmart shooting in El Paso from the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue attack in Pittsburgh from the 2015 Mother Emanuel AME church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina. I feel strange about leaving them up there, but then again, who knows where we’re going? Where will any of us find safety on January 6?Ī bloodthirsty mob of hundreds has entered the building outside the metal detectors and with no security check. Meantime, the officers up there have locked all the doors to keep the rioters from breaking in but will now presumably unlock them to get our colleagues out. When we escape and are reunited later, a colleague will tell me they decided to cross over to the GOP side because they thought a mass shooter who entered would be less likely to aim at the Republican side of the House. Sara Jacobs, who is only in her fourth day on the job, crawling their way over.
I look up to the gallery again to see our colleagues, who have been frozen in place on the Democratic side, now awkwardly crouching and sliding through the rows to make their way over to the gallery above the Republican side.
Everyone moves, some people run, to the Speaker’s lobby, carrying their gas masks. Someone official calls upon us to evacuate right away, calmly.
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